"Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less."
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"When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else."
"Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered."
"I grow spiritually when I accept responsibility for my life."
"I deserve the best and I accept the best now"
"If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally."
"A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability"
"I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it."
"Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure."
"People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get."
"But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand."
"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
"The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth."
"I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is."
"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."
"We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it."
"If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?"
"If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment."
"How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey."
"I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality."